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    Product Manual Seagate ® NAS HDD 100724684 Rev. A April 2013 ST4000VN000 ST3000VN000 ST2000VN000[...]

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    © 2013 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Publication number: 100724684, Rev. A April 2013 Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. No part of thi[...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A Contents Seagate Technology Support Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.0 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.1 About the SATA [...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A[...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A Figures Figure 1 Attaching SATA cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Figure 2 Mounting dimensions (2TB,3TB and 4TB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24[...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A[...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 7 For information regarding online support and services, visit http://www.seagate.com/about/contact-us/technical- support/ Available services include: • Presales & Technical support • Global Support Services telephone numbers & business hours • Authorized Service Centers For information regarding Warrant[...]

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    8 NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A[...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 9 1.0 Introduction This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate ® NAS HDD model drives: These drives provide the following key features: • Off-the-shelf compatibility • Rated for 1M hours MTBF • 24x7 capability • Performance-tuned for RAID application[...]

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    10 NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A Introduction www.seagate.com The SATA host adapter and drive share the function of emulating parallel ATA device behavior to provide backward compatibility with existing host systems and software. The Command and Control Block registers, PIO and DMA data transfers, resets, and interrupts are all emulated. The SATA [...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 11 2.0 Drive Specifications Unless otherwise noted, all specifications are measured under ambient conditions, at 25°C, and nominal power. For convenience, the phrases the drive and this drive are used throughout this manual to indicate the following drive models: 2.1 Specification summary tables The specifications li[...]

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    12 NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A Drive Specifications www.seagate.com *All specifications above are based on native configurations. ** One GB equals one billion bytes and 1TB equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. * ** During periods of drive [...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 13 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.2 Formatted capacity *One GB equals one billion bytes and 1TB equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity m ay vary depending on operating environment and formatting. 2.2.1 LBA mode When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks ([...]

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    14 NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.4 Recording and interface technology 2.5 Physical characteristics Interface SATA Recording method TGMR Recording density 2TB and 4TB 1807kFCI 3TB 1550kFCI Track density (ktracks/inch avg) 2TB 352 3TB and 4TB 340 Areal density (Gb/in 2 ) 2TB and 4TB 625 3TB 536 Internal data tr[...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 15 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.6 Seek time Seek measurements are taken with nominal power at 25°C ambient temperature. All times are measured using drive diagnostics. The specifications in the table below are defined as follows: • Track-to-track seek time is an average of all possible single-track seeks [...]

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    16 NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A Drive Specifications www.seagate.com During Standby mode, the drive accepts commands, but the drive is not spinning, and the servo and read/ write electronics are in power-down mode. * Idle1. During periods of drive idle, some offline activity may occur according to the S.M.A.R.T. specification, which may increase [...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 17 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.8.4 Power-management modes The drive provides programmable power management to provide greater energy efficiency. In most systems, you can control power management through the system setup program. The drive features the following power- management modes: • Active mode The d[...]

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    18 NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.9.2 Ambient Temperature 2.9.3 Temperature gradient 2.9.4 Humidity 2.9.4.1 Relative humidity 2.9.4.2 Wet bulb temperature 2.9.5 Altitude 2.9.6 Shock All shock specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input shock applied at the drive mounting screws. Sho[...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 19 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications 2.9.6.3 Operating vibration The maximum vibration levels that the drive may experience while meeting the performance standards specified in this document are specified below. All vibration specifications assume that the drive is mounted securely with the input vibration applied [...]

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    20 NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.12 Reliability - Mean Time Between Failure The product will achieve a Mean Time Between Failure Rate (MTBF) of 1,000,000 hours when operated in an environment of ambient air temperatures of 25°C. Operation at temperatures outside the specifications shown in Section 2.9 may in[...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 21 www.seagate.com Drive Specifications Korean RRL If these drives have the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) logo, they comply with paragraph 1 of Article 11 of the Electromagnetic Compatibility control Regulation and meet the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Framework requirements of the Radio Research Labor[...]

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    22 NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A Drive Specifications www.seagate.com 2.15.2 China Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive This product has an Environmental Protection Use Period (EPUP) of 20 years. The following table contains information mandated by China's "Marking Requirements for Control of Pollution Caused by Electroni[...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 23 3.0 Configuring and Mounting the Drive This section contains the specifications and instructions for configuring and mounting the drive. 3.1 Handling and static-discharge precautions After unpacking, and before installation, the drive may be exposed to potential handling and electrostatic discharge (ESD) hazards. O[...]

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    24 NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A Configuring and Mounting the Drive www.seagate.com Figure 1 Attaching SATA cabling Each cable is keyed to ensure correct orientation. NAS HDD drives support latching SATA connectors. 3.4 Drive mounting You can mount the drive in any orientation using four screws in the side-mounting holes or four screws in the bott[...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 25 4.0 SATA Interface These drives use the industry-standard Serial ATA (SATA) interface that supports FIS data transfers. It supports ATA programmed input/output (PIO) modes 0 to 4; multiword DMA modes 0 to 2, and Ultra DMA modes 0 to 6. For detailed information about the SATA interface, refer to the “Serial ATA: H[...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 26 Notes 1. All pins are in a single row, with a 1.27 mm (0.050 in) pitch. 2. The comments on the mating sequence apply to the case of backplane blindmate connector only. In this case, the mating sequences are: • the ground pins P4 and P12. • the pre-charge power pins and the other ground pins. • the signal pins[...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 27 www.seagate.com SATA Interface Device Configuration Identify B1 H / C2 H Device Configuration Restore B1 H / C0 H Device Configuration Set B1 H / C3 H Device Reset 08 H Download Microcode 92 H Execute Device Diagnostics 90 H Flush Cache E7 H Flush Cache Extended EA H Format Track 50 H Identify Device EC H Idle E3 H[...]

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    28 NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A SATA Interface www.seagate.com Seek 70 H Set Features EF H Set Max Address F9 H Note: Individual Set Max Address commands are identified by the value placed in the Set Max Features register as defined to the right. Address: Password: Lock: Unlock: Freeze Lock: 00 H 01 H 02 H 03 H 04 H Set Max Address Extended 37 H [...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 29 www.seagate.com SATA Interface 4.3.1 Identify Device command The Identify Device command (command code EC H ) transfers information about the drive to the host following power up. The data is organized as a single 512-byte block of data, whose contents are shown in on page 26. All reserved bits or words should be s[...]

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    30 NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A SATA Interface www.seagate.com 59 Number of sectors transferred during a Read Multiple or Write Multiple command xxxx H 60–61 Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available (see Section 2.2 for related information) *Note: The maximum value allowed in this field is: 0FFFFFFFh (268,435,455 sectors, 137GB). [...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 31 www.seagate.com SATA Interface 92 Master password revision code FFFE H 93 Hardware reset value xxxx H 94 Automatic acoustic management 8080 H 95–99 ATA-reserved 0000 H 100–103 Total number of user-addressable LBA sectors available (see Section 2.2 for related information). These words are required for drives th[...]

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    32 NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A SATA Interface www.seagate.com 5 GPL feature set is supported. 6 WRITE DMA FUA EXT and WRITE MULTIPLE FUA EXT commands are supported. 7 WRITE DMA QUEUED FUA EXT command is supported. 8 64-bit World Wide Name is supported. 9-10 Obsolete. 11-12 Reserved for TLC. 13 IDLE IMMEDIATE command with IUNLOAD feature is suppo[...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 33 www.seagate.com SATA Interface 4.3.2 Set Features command This command controls the implementation of various features that the drive supports. When the drive receives this command, it sets BSY, checks the contents of the Features register, clears BSY and generates an interrupt. If the value in the register does no[...]

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    34 NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A SATA Interface www.seagate.com 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commands S.M.A.R.T. provides near-term failure prediction for disk drives. When S.M.A.R.T. is enabled, the drive monitors predetermined drive attributes that are susceptible to degradation over time. If self-monitoring determines that a failure is likely, S.M.A.R.T. m[...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 35 A ACA 21 acceleration 19 acoustics 19 Active 17 Active mode 17 Agency certification 20 altitude 18 Ambient temperature 17 ambient temperature 15 areal density 14 ATA commands 26 Australia/New Zealand Standard AS/NZ CISPR22 21 Australian Communication Authority (ACA) 21 Australian C-Tick 21 Average latency 15 Averag[...]

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    36 NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A nominal power 15 Nonoperating shock 18 Nonoperating vibration 19 O operating 16 Operating power 15 Operating shock 18 Operating vibration 19 P Physical characteristics 15 point-to-point 9, 23 Power consumption 15 power dissipation 16 Power modes 17 Power specifications 15 Power-management modes 17 Power-on to Ready[...]

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    NAS HDD Product Manual, Rev. A 37 Voltage dips, interrupts 20 Voltage tolerance 16 W weight 14 wet bulb temperature 18 width 14 Write Buffer 28 Write DMA 28 Write DMA Extended 28 Write DMA FUA Extended 28 Write DMA Without Retries 28 Write Log Extended 28 Write Multiple 28 Write Multiple Extended 28 Write Multiple FUA Extended 28 Write Sectors 28 W[...]

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